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Australia to become first country to eliminate cervical cancer
Research has suggested that if vaccination and screening rates are maintained in Australia, the country will become the first to effectively eliminate cervical cancer.
The Lancet Public Health Journal published the Cancer Council New South Wales research on the matter, claiming that the disease could be eradicated as a public health issue nationally within 20 years and predicting that cervical cancer would be classified as a ‘rare cancer’ in Australia by 2022.
Attributed to national prevention programmes, the progress began in 1991 when a national screening programme was implemented before, in 2007, Australia became one of the first countries to introduce a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination scheme for girls. The vaccination was later extended for boys.
Australia's current annual cervical cancer rate stands at seven cases per 100,000 people, about half the global average. In the UK, the rate is expected to reach 17 cases per 100,000 by 2035.
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